Old pc faster than recent

[sebastien]

Hi all ! many many thanks for your contributions !
So, enclosed more details :

1. on this link, my two respective ps aux output
http://camuzat.sebastien.free.fr/ps-aux.odt

2. Then, you'll find below the bonnie's outputs :

Bonnie's output on my desktop PC :
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Version  1.
03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input-
--Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec
%CP  /sec %CP seb             
 1G  9961  93 19272  27  8203  11 11829 85 17233  11 122.3   1
------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create--
--Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files  /sec %CP  /sec
%CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP 16   468  99 +++++ +++
+++++ +++   489  99 +++++ +++  2021  95
seb,1G,9961,93,19272,27,8203,11,11829,85,17233,11,122.3,1,16,468,99,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,489,99,+++++,+++,2021,95
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Bonnie's output on the laptop :

------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks-- Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP
K/sec %CP  /sec %CP caro           480M 15852  57 13916   4  8361   2
16544  56 27841   4  95.6   0 ------Sequential Create------
--------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create--
--Read--- -Delete-- files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec
%CP  /sec %CP 16  1602  70 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  1891  80 +++++ +++
6762  70
caro,480M,15852,57,13916,4,8361,2,16544,56,27841,4,95.6,0,16,1602,70,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,1891,80,+++++,+++,6762,70
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The outputs are messy... hope you can understand them.

n Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:25:41 +0100
Carsten Aulbert <carsten at welcomes-you.com> wrote:

> sebastien wrote:
> > OK, so another more accurate information.
> 
> > 1. On the celeron laptop Ive lauched OO word processor :
> > * disabling acpid and apmd daemons (laptop energy management):
> > ... in 18 seconds
> > * acpid and apmd enabled :
> > ... 22seconds.
> > (inbetween I of course disconnected the session)
> 
> > 2. On my 7 years old pentium 733 :
> >  15 seconds !!!
> 
> 
> Like Steve wrote, it would be nice to try bonnie (or faster and more
> inaccurate "sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/hda" and the output of "sudo hdparm
> -I /dev/hda", assuming hda is the harddisk).
> 
> OOwrite loads a lot of stuff from the hard disk, thus if the
> throughput of the laptop drive is much less than that of the desktop
> system, this would explain it. Also loading OO might push things into
> swap, making things even slower (try looking at the swap level before
> and after loading oowriter).
> 
> Regarding acpid: I guess the system is in a lower power state, which
> frequency scaling governor do you use? Either try
> sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_*
> sudo cat /sys//devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_*gov*
> 
> or use one of the applets helping with this, e.g. klaptop or its
> Gnome twin.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Carsten
>